General Comte Jean de Rochambeau Memorial

[front, south face:]

Rochambeau

[back, north face:]

"We have been contemporaries

and

fellow labourers

in the cause

of liberty,

and we have lived

together

as brothers should do,

in harmonious friendship,"

Washington to Rochambeau

February 1, 1784

By the ...

Comte de Rochambeau

1781 Siege of Yorktown

I hasten to impart to you the happiness I feel at the welcome news of your arrival; and as well in the name of the American army as my own name to present you with an assurance ...